Stumbled In Love [Complete]

41.

"Arthit! There is a strange man in the apartment! Chocolate, attack!"

I rolled my eyes in probably the most exaggerated manner as I felt Kong pull me behind his back once again. Seriously what was with the boy using his body as a human shield suddenly.

Trying to extract my arm from within his deathly clutch before running a hand over my sleepy face. I don't know how many more surprises I can handle in one day, completely keeping aside the fact that secretly I was ecstatic that my brother was back home.

"Not as strange as you obviously. And please mind your volume a little more in the middle of the night. I happen to like my ears quite a bit. He is just Sol, my brother. And Sol, this is...well...I guess no point in pretending you don't know who he is, is there?"

"Yes, yes I do. So this is Kong huh?"

Is it just that I haven't heard his voice so close to me for so long or was it that I have never heard his soft whisper lace with so much bitterness in my life, that I couldn't help but frown slightly at his tone.

"Yeah, this is Kong."

"Well, he is not as cute as Erica made him out to be."

"Hey! I am exactly as cute as Erica made it out. Wait, how cute did she say I was? Never mind that Arthit likes me and that's enough for me. You should worry about yourself here buddy."

"What exactly do I have to worry about here, buddy?"

"What the fuck are you doing here?"

"Me? This is my home. I came home to my brother. What about you? Since when did Arthit bring boys home to sleep with him?"

"Listen here, douchebag I am not some boy, I am his..."

"Enough! As much as I am enjoying both of you fighting over me like rabid dogs, can both of you kindly shut up already? It's late, I am tired, and I need to sleep. C'mon Kong, we are going to pretend all of us have gone mute for the rest of the night and give me some hours of peace."

"But Arthit..."

"But Arthit, nothing. The mute timer started already."

Grabbing Kong's wrist I marched back to the room, slamming the door shut, not even caring where or how Sol was going to spend the night. But I was in a full-blown mood to bring out my inner asshole right now. And just now in the briefest of interactions between Sol and Kong, I have a feeling tomorrow morning is going to be one bumpy road.

But even with having mentally prepared practically all night, barely managing to doze off to Kong's soft snores, I was still not ready to open the door the next morning and step right into world war 3.

"Well, you clearly don't know Arthit well enough then, he hates breakfast from outside. He only likes home-cooked meals."

"Pfffttt...you should tell the hundreds of take out meals the man has gobbled up this year."

"Were you bringing them for him?"

"Obviously you weren't the one doing so."

"You have been messing up his appetite and schedules for a whole damn year now? He has a very sensitive stomach you know."

"Good to know, I haven't had a chance to play with it yet."

"Oh? Haven't you guys slept with each other?"

"Oh, no no no, what I meant was..."

Well, this conversation was going nowhere obviously. Closing the door back on the two men in my life acting like two-year-olds bickering away as if to decide who would get the last candy. I even get where Kong was coming from, seeing how he had been so fiercely protective of me ever since the time we had been together, especially after the showdown with my mother the previous night. But what I couldn't really understand at all was what Sol doing here all of a sudden. When he was the one who abandoned me. He was the one who schemed with our parents. He was the one who thought I should take advantage of Kong. And now he comes back, calling it his home, as if he isn't some gigantic betraying piece of shit.